Draft:Karen Iglitzin

• Comment: Far too much unreferenced content, and citing primary sources is not helping to establish notability. DoubleGrazing (talk) 19:01, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

• Comment: I started going through the sources, and the first four didn't even mention Iglitzin, so I left it at that. When citing a source, you must make sure it actually supports the statement against which it is cited, otherwise it serves no purpose. So for example when making the statement "Iglitzin received her Bachelor of Music at Indiana University, studying with Josef Gingold", it is pointless to cite a source that simply talks about Gingold; we have no doubt that he existed. Instead, we need a source that verifies the stated facts, ie. a) that Iglitzin received a degree from Indiana U., and b) she studied with Gingold.
  There is also far too much information here that isn't supported (or even quasi-supported) by any references. This is unacceptable in an article on a living person (WP:BLP). DoubleGrazing (talk) 07:18, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

• Comment: We cannot accept unsourced WP:BLP drafts. ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 23:25, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

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Karen Cecile Iglitzin (born 24 December 1957) is an American violinist, chamber music player, organizer of chamber music workshops and camps. She was the first violinist of the Philadelphia String Quartet, as well as a faculty member at Western Washington University

Biography:

Early life

Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, her parents are Alan Iglitzin, founding violist of the Philadelphia String Quartet; and Lynne Iglitzin, former professor of political science at the University of Washington. Upon moving to Seattle, she started studying the violin with Veda Reynolds, the first violinist of the PSQ.

Education

Karen was a member of the Roosevelt High School Chamber Orchestra in Seattle, the first student chamber orchestra to perform self-conducted. Iglitzin received her Bachelor of Music at Indiana University, studying with Josef Gingold. She founded the Indiana Chamber Players, which performed Baroque music in the self-conducted style. The ensemble ran for two years, featuring faculty soloists. Iglitzin received her Masters of Music at Yale School of Music in 1982, studying with Joseph Silverstein She had intensive chamber music studies with the Tokyo String Quartet and Raphael Hillyer, violist of the Juilliard Quartet. Her summer studies included Aspen with Shirley Givens and Dorothy Delay, Meadowmount with Ivan Galamian and at Yale in Norfolk. She spent three years at the Tanglewood Music Center where she was awarded the Josef Silverstein prize.

Career with the Philadelphia Quartet

Alan and Karen Iglitzin

PSQ with Alan Iglitzin, Roger Lebow, Karen Iglitzin and Irv Eisenberg in the Olympic Music Festival Barn, 1984

PSQ with Irv Eisenberg, Alan Iglitzin, Alexander Segal and Karen Iglitzin, 1985

Ms. Iglitzin joined the quartet as first violinist 1984. The PSQ played eighty concerts each year, and did two international tours, giving some eighty concerts each year. They also did many residencies in school and community colleges. In 1983, they toured Brazil, Columbia and Chile. In 1985 they spent six weeks touring India. She was director of educational projects which involved outreach concerts and residencies around the Pacific Northwest. The quartet played a series at UW Meany Hall featuring eight concerts each year with numerous guest artists including Paul Hersh, viola and piano; and Gilbert Kalish, piano.

With her father, Alan Iglitzin, they founded the Olympic Music Festival "Concerts-in-the-Barn" near Port Hadlock, WA. As part of the festival, founded and directed the Chamber Music Institute, which hosted many years of chamber music camps for teenagers.

Career as a professor and educator

In 1986, Ms. Iglitzin joined the faculty as head of strings at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. She taught violin, chamber music and music appreciate for non-music majors. Iglitzin founded the WWU Preparatory Music Program for area students to have a program on Saturdays. Its components were orchestra, band, choir and folk music. It also included an division for WWU music students to have experience teaching young musicians.

In 1996, after receiving tenure from WWU, she took a leave of absence in the Shandong Province in China. There, she and husband Roger Nelson served as guest music professors at Qufu Teachers University for the 1997-1998 year. Moving to Seattle, she established a non-profit organization, Chamber Music Madness, in 2000 to provide chamber music workshops and camps for young people from around the Puget Sound Area.

In 2010 Iglitzin departed to establish a chamber music teaching studio. She also has performed as a folk fiddler and plays Brazilian popular music known as 'choro'. She runs workshops for all ages.

Other work

Ms. Iglitzin has written articles including for the American String Teacher, 'Teaching with Interpreters in China, 1988; Chamber Music Coaching Ideas for Starting Out Chamber Music America, Strings Magazine and the Strad Magazine, 'Fiddling on the Yangtze", 1999.

She was named "Teacher-of-the-Year" by the Washington State division of the American String Teachers Association. (1999) Iglitzin was also chosen by Chamber Music America as a national winner of the Heidi Castleman Award for Excellence in Chamber Music Teaching (2001). Iglitzin appeared on a podcast about her work with young people.

She is a consultant as a college preparatory advisor for high school students. She also guides prospective music majors how to manage their music school selection and audition process.

Summer Chamber Music Camp 2022